The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE BoDv of John Galvagn, of Cincinnati, was
cremated in that city Thursday. It was the
| tenth cremation which has occurred IN Cincln-
natl.
In THE RECORDS of Cambridge University, En-
gland, has been found a valuable autograph of
John Harvard, the father of Harvard Uni
versity.
| THE ORANGE TREE and the lemon are both de-
seconded from the citron. The history of the
orange tree is said to date back to the Crusades,
| the returning pilgrims carrying it into Europe
| 200 or 600 years ago
ONE of the best Touring mills in Franklin
county, Pennsylvania, is also the. oldest. In
1855, what is known as the Wyland mill, was
built in Hamilton township, and for over one
hundred years has been in active operation
even now often running day and night.
In a country court in England, recently, there
was trial to determine the ownership of dog
The Judge couldn't make out from the evidence
which claimant was the real owner so he made
one stand on each side, while an officer held the
dog in the middle of the room. Then he told
them both TO whistle and the officer to release
the dog at the same moment. When this was
done the dog bolted through the open door.
call the next case, was all the comment the
Judge made, although the litigants stormed.
A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN has remarked that
every house ought to be pulled down at the end
OF the sixtieth year, as it has by that time
absorbed all the diseases of those who have
lived in it, believing that wood and plaster alb
sorb gases, foul air and feverish exhalations as
| readily as milk or water does. But as it is not
practicable to tear down houses every half CEN
fury or so, another suggestion is made, namely:
that all the wood used in their interior con-
struction and all the plain surfaces of plaster
should be so thoroughly oiled or vanished
that the power of absorption should be almost
entirely destroyed, and the character thus so
changed that destruction would no longer be
desirable.
EUGENE ToMPKNs is likely to create breeze
in New York. He is the young Bostonan who
will succeed John Stetson as lessee of the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, and he has caused the an
nouncement to be made that during his admin
istration ladies will be permitted to enter the
parquette wearing hats or bonnets. 1t is the
European rule and II is given out that 1t will be
rigidly enforced. May the courageous young
Bostonian live a century 10 carry into lasting
effect the most wholesome and necessary the
atrlcal reform that has ever been proposed in
America. If it should spread all over the coun-
try there is many q malignant high halter who
would either have to stay at home or find
perch in the upper region.
DR.. ABBOTT, Secretary of the Massachusetts
State Board of Health, by the aid of statistics
for the past thirty years shows that the number
of deaths for each 1 900 of the population in the
last fifteen years is about one-half what it was
for the fifteen years next preceding, and of
course the population during the latter period
has been much larger. The mortality reports
for the State show that the largest number of
deaths was thirty for the week ending Oct %,
and nineteen for the week ending Nov. 49, The
reports for the city of Boston show the same
gradual decrease. The highest number of cases
reported in any week was seventy-eight, and the
number is now reduced to sixty.
UP TO 1894 Mont Blanc was assembled only
seventeen times, after that year more frequent
ly, and now ascents are Of common occurrence
This summer, the highest point of Mont Blanc
was reached by two Russian ladies', the sisters
Gortchakoff; they made the ascent in twenty
hours. The ladies' who We're accompanied by
two guides were enthusiastically received on
their return to Chamounix, and almost buried
| in flowers. Among the 1,032 persons who, up to
the present year, haYe scaled Mont Blanc, there
are few other instances of ladies' having sue
ceSsfully made the ascent. Englishmen are
most largely represented in the crowd who
have successfully assembled the mountain Since
Saussures ascent, many routes have been dis
covered by which the summit may be reached
much more easily and more quickly.
HENRY E. WILLIAMSON, the agent at the Crow
Agency, has sent in his resignation at the re-
quest of the Secretary of the Interior, to take
effect on Dec. 81. Mr.. Williamson is an uncle of
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Upshaw
His removal is the result of an investigation
| made by Inspector Armstrong during his late
trip to the Crow Agency to investigate the causes
of the outbreak there. The report alleges that
Williamson neglected to comply with the Secre-
grazing privileges on the reservation thus leav-
ing the monopoly in the hands of one syndicate
of cattle men; that Williamson made a contract
with two persons named Mccormick and Nc
Mutt, giving them the exclusive privilege to cut
hay on the Crow reservation for sale to the
army posts, out of which they made $4,000
year, and 1t also makes personal charges.
THE TALK of new telegraph line between
New York and San Francisco, has aroused the
old timers to lively "reminiscences of the build
ing of the first line across the plains. One pole
100 miles west of Laramie was set I'D four
times, and each time hacked down by Indian
tomahawks. Each time there was a bloody
Skirmish with the redskins for temporary pos
session Of the stump. At last the pole was given
to a young man who is now high up in the man
agement of Western Union. He laid a mine in
the hole set up the new POLE trailed the fuse to
ambush of rocks close by, and waited with two
came along and held a dance around the
pole. When the mine was fired all but three
were killed, and those three carried off Mimic
balls with them. The powder blew up the pole
again, but it cleaned the hole out nicely for
new one, which was thereafter let alone. This
story was told with great eclat at Delmonico's
and was the signal for more bottles and more
stories. 1t is curious what enthusiastic story
tellers are to be found among New Workers who
have seen life in the Rockies
AT the recent meeting of the French Associa-
ton NJ. Schrader described the results of his ten
years study of the Pyrenees, which has led him
seriously to modify previously accepted ideas
upon the contour and structure of that range
According TO the old descriptions the mass of
the Pyrenean chain was comparable to a fern
leaf with its transverse nerves. or to the back
bone of fish. In reality the PyreneeS consist
of a long series of lines of elevations obuue to
the imaginary axis of the chain, with which
they often form an acute angle 1t is impossi-
BILE to look at the network exhibited in the map
by the valleys and the ridges without being
struck with the extreme precision of the meshes.
These meshes are broken up in all directions
the slopes, however, presenting very different
aspects On the French side the crests are
blunted. The incessant humidity of the atnos-
phere has used them up; mountains ravines
crests, all are effaced to assume the form of
juxtaposed cones or pyramids. On the Spanish
side, again, the fractures have remained much
fresher, the angles sharper, the forms rollgher,
due no doubt to the much dryer climate of the
south side. The slope on the Spanish side is
very gradual, while on the French side the
mountains rise like wall.
JONES, of Nevada, has lost some of his prom +
nence in national politics. although he is still in
the zenith of intellectual activity. Jones is
Welshman by birth, but thorough American
in taste, sympathy and ideas. Jones life has
been continued romance. One year he is a
millionaire and the next year ne is fiat broke
To-day he has S100000 to his credit, to-mo rrow
he is $4,000 poorer than when he was born
Although he represents Nevada in the Senate
he is to all lntents and purposes a Californian
He resides in California. his interests are in
California and he is always called Californian.
kuku T--l H.